Broadway singer and Billions actress Melissa Errico played a hero in real life on Wednesday when she helped save a man who’d fallen onto the New York City subway tracks as the next speeding train approached.

Best known for her starring roles in Broadway’s High Society with Anna Kendrick and as grieving widow June Raichlein on Showtime’s hit series, Billions, Errico, 49, had just left her vocal coach’s studio when she heard screams for help from inside the 14th Street F train station.

“I saw two men holding on to another man on the tracks who was reaching up to them,” the Tony-nominated actress tells PEOPLE. “He was a sweet man. He was really desperate and scared.”

But he was too heavy for them to lift.

“I could see the two men giving up,” she says. “They were letting him go.”

Well aware that a train could come rumbling down the tracks at any moment, Errico knew she had to act fast.

Shrugging off her life-saving heroics, Errico simply says, “I’m a mom. Who better to save a life than a mom? I had the energy and jumped in to help this guy. I completed the chain. People do bigger things than that every day.”

Career-wise, Errico has some big things coming up herself.

On Labor Day, she will sing the National Anthem at the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, where her husband, tennis star Patrick McEnroe, will be among the commentators for ESPN.

Produced by the late Phil Ramone, the symphonic album features songs written by the late film composer Michel Legrand and will include the last song the legendary French film composer wrote with Alan and Marilyn Bergman.

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